Static Websites, Static Content

In the early days of websites and webdesign, if (when) there was
a need to change, add or modify published information on a
clients website we’d get a call (or email) from the client with
a markup of proposed changes. Simple stream of workflow, Client
to us, us to web.

Dynamic Websites, Fluid Content

The days of static HTML pages has pretty much passed, and that’s
a good thing. Today, there’s a much greater amount of, and need
for “fluid content” on the web… Targeted “fresh” information
is today’s asset, and web-enabled business needs the abilty to
keep that content current and relevant. Here’s where content
management comes in…

Real-World Business uses Content Management

The working model for just about any conventional business with
more than one employee already uses a content management
structure in real-world, day to day business.

As an example (unless you are a sole proprietor), when your
company sells a product or gets an order;

* You get a paper trail upstream from sales * Revisions and
approvals are made by you (or lower management) and are passed
back downstream to sales and accounting.

Your employees don’t physically move walls, change or add
doorways or build new additions to the building, they work only
with assets, not the physical structure of your business.
Employees + Inventory = Yes Employees + Building = No

Same Story, Different Media

Online Content Management works along similar veins by assigning
administrative priorities and permissions to all content data
available on your website. This structure enables anyone with
permission to access, modify and add content to your website
within administration guidelines without the need to change
global website structure. Content can be anything you currently
publish or would like to publish on your website; inventory
(catalog/e-store), articles and business information are all
considered content assets.

Separation of Church and State

The real strength behind most content management applications
isn’t the ease of content manipulation but rather, the complete
separation of the “content” layer from the “application” layer.
In the old days, when we developed a static website, content and
interface were assembled together, page by page. Client content
(articles, pictures and business information) were designed
around navigation menus and the internal structure of the
website, therefore, each time we were asked to make a
substantial change to the clients content, someone here had to
go under the client’s hood and change or modify the application
layer to reflect the new additions. On some the large sites,
changing or adding a menu item or new content section required
hand-coding hundreds of pages and took days, sometimes weeks.

Billable yes, cost efficient to client, no… From a design shop
standpoint, static content maintenance was not even marginally
profitable.

That’s where a good content management tool comes in.

By separating all client content from the application layer of
the clients website, we now have the ability to make global
changes to our clients website in seconds instead of hours or
days.

Just Add Water and Stir

There are dozens of exceptional content management applications
available on the market today that range from simple Online
Journal Tools (Blog Software) to enterprise-capable CRMS
(Content Resource Management Software). Most of the popular
applications are internet enabled which means the application
software needs to be installed on a dedicated intranet or
web-server. Once installed, maintenance and editorial changes
can be made directly from a secure administration section on
your website with no special software needed. Just open up your
favorite web-browser on any computer connected to the internet,
log in and away you go.

Babe Ruth The Sultan of Swat often called The Great Bambino and the most popular and best known name of all baseball was the Babe”.

Stories written and told of and about this all time great of baseball leads one to think he was not opposed to some fun and frivolity. So would it not be fitting for you baseball fans to enjoy this little puzzle of the “Babe.”

Going forward or backwards going up or down. The letters might overlap but spell “Babe.” Count the times you can find the name “Babe.” Do Not count any diagonal spelling. Stay with the horizontal and vertical lines only.

When you reach the count of 75 you are close to the end. Honestly I am not exactly sure the exact count but if you find more than 78 ways I would be pleased to know it.

E B B A B E B A B E B A B

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There is no real mystery here but your fun with the maze an
the “Babe” is for your pleasure.

Batter Up—Let’s Play Ball…

Major Wiley B. Channell USMC (retired) bringing baseball and the ideas of baseballfarming to you at http://www.baseballfarming.com for all to enjoy.

As Christians, we have to stand firmly and solidly behind the
Jewish people and their state of Israel. When you put all of the
verses together on the original covenant God the Father made
with their first forefather, Abraham, I believe that this
original covenant is still in full force and full effect to this
very day.

God made an original covenant and pact with the Jewish people in
that He would be their God and they would be His chosen people.
This everlasting covenant was made with their first set of
forefathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He then tops it off by
promising that they would be given the land of Israel as an
everlasting possession.

Though the Jewish people managed to break their end of the
bargain by all of their rebellious and adulterous behavior
towards the Lord during much of the Old Testament, and managed
to get themselves dispersed to the four corners of the world as
punishment and judgment for this kind of unacceptable behavior
towards Him in 70 AD, God still intends on keeping His side of
the bargain.

The covenant God made with Abraham was an everlasting and
permanent covenant, and nothing that the Jewish people would end
up doing against Him, no matter how bad, was going to end up
canceling, revoking, rescinding or breaking this covenant with
Him.

The Jewish people lost temporary possession of the land of
Israel as a result of this dispersion, but because God made this
original covenant with Abraham on a permanent and everlasting
basis, God will stay true to His Word and He will still keep to
His side of the bargain.

As a result, God the Father is still the God of Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob and all of the rest of the Jewish people. The Jewish
people are still the chosen people of God the Father and they
are still the apple of His eye. The land of Israel is still
their everlasting possession and the land still belongs to them
and them alone.

God Himself has made a sovereign choice to make this race of
people His chosen people, and neither we as Christians, the
Muslims or any of the rest of the world have any legal right to
be attacking or questioning the Lord on the choice He made to
single out this race and class of people to be His chosen people
that would eventually supply the blood line that His Son Jesus
would eventually be born into our world through. The facts are
the facts. God has spoken out loud and clear on this entire
issue through His Word. This is why God has warned the rest of
the world with the statement that He makes in the following
verse I will now give you.

In this statement, God tells Abraham, when making this original
covenant with him, that He will bless those who will bless him
and that He will curse those that will try and curse him. When
God is telling Abraham that He will bless those that will bless
him and curse those who will try and curse him, I believe that
He is talking about the entire Jewish race as a people and as a
nation. He is not just talking to only Abraham. Here is this
most powerful verse and warning direct from the Lord Himself:

Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, from
your kindred and from your father’s house, to a land that I will
show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and
make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. I will bless
those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in
you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” (Genesis
12:1-3)

Per the article we have in the Current Issues section of our
site titled “The Gaza Pullout and Hurricane Katrina,” I do not
think we are dealing with any coincidence in that one week after
president Bush and Prime Minister Sharon arranged to have part
of the Gaza strip handed over to the Palestinians, that we end
up having the worse hurricane and natural disaster that has ever
struck our country strike us after this land deal was completed
with the Palestinians! And to top it all off, 4 months later,
Sharon ends up having a stroke and is completely knocked out of
his position as the Prime Minister of Israel. And then Hamas,
the dreaded terrorist organization and sworn enemy of Israel who
also wants to wipe Israel off the face of the map, ends up
winning the local Palestinian election and as a result, they are
now residing right in Israel’s backyard.

As far as President Bush, his poll numbers have now gone into a
major free fall. At the time that I am writing up this article,
his poll numbers have now dropped down to a very dismal 31%
approval rating. Is all of this just pure coincidental activity,
or are we seeing the wrath and judgment of God hit those persons
responsible for dividing up part of Israel’s land to their sworn
enemy based upon the wording of the above verse? Judge and
discern for yourselves. To sum it all up, I want to highlight
and bullet point what all of the above verses are trying to tell
us:

God makes and establishes an everlasting - unconditional
covenant with Abraham

God promises to give the land of Israel to Abraham and the rest
of his descendants that would follow after him as an everlasting
possession

The apostle Paul states that God has not cast away His chosen
people and that all of Israel will eventually be saved and
accept Jesus Christ as their true Messiah and Savior

God the Father states that He will never cast off the seed of
Israel from His sight

God makes an everlasting covenant with King David in that his
throne and kingdom will be an everlasting throne and kingdom
that will know no end

God will give His Son Jesus the throne of King David in the
coming Millennium Kingdom where He will rule this entire earth
from the city of Jerusalem for a 1000 years

Jesus was born into our world as a Jew, and then was crucified
as the “King of the Jews”

Though God disperses the Jewish nation to the four corners of
the world in 70 AD, He promises to bring them back and restore
them to their homeland of Israel in the latter days

Jesus will rule this earth from the city of Jerusalem in the
coming 1000 year Millennium Kingdom

After the 1000 year Millennium rule of Jesus from Jerusalem, God
the Father will create a New Heaven and a New Earth. He will
then bring down a “New Jerusalem” from Heaven itself where both
He and Jesus will rule our New Earth from for the rest of all
eternity.

The original covenant that God made with Abraham was an
everlasting and unconditional covenant that would never end. The
land of Israel, which He promised to give to him and his
descendants, was given to him as an everlasting possession.

When God says that this covenant will be an everlasting
covenant, this is now a done deal. And the Bible proves all of
this out when the Jewish people once more regain possession of
their land of Israel back in 1948.

If the Bible was not the infallible and inerrant Word of God,
and God was not meaning what He was saying back in the Old
Testament about re-gathering and restoring the Jewish people
back to their homeland of Israel, then the restoration of the
Jewish people back to their land of Israel in 1948 would have
never occurred. But since it did, just like the Bible predicted
it would, this once more shows us that our Bible is truly the
inspired and infallible Word of our Holy God, and that
everything that proceeds out of the mouth of our God will
eventually come to pass.

I will leave you with one last thought in reference to the
Jewish people, their state of Israel and what our spiritual
relationship should be to them as Christians. When you really
look at what God the Father was doing when He initiated making
contact with this race of people, we are looking at an
incredible, profound reality.

After Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden of Eden as a
result of disobeying a direct command from the Lord, all of
mankind became lost with no real way to make it into heaven
after we physically die.

At this point, God could have easily washed His hands of the
entire human race as the Bible tells us that everyone that would
be born after Adam and Eve would also become sinners and fall
way short of the glory of our Lord. But because we are dealing
with an incredible great, loving, merciful and good God, God
made an incredible sovereign choice to have mercy on us. And
when He made this choice to have mercy on us, He had to
implement a plan and a way in order for us to be able to receive
His mercy, forgiveness, pardon, salvation and redemption from
our sinful states and natures.

As we all know now, this plan would be implemented through His
one and only Son Jesus Christ. However, there was only one
little problem with this plan. Jesus would have to leave His
heavenly kingdom and literally come down onto our earth to be
able to save us from our sins. And not only would He have to
literally come down upon our earth, but He would also have to
literally incarnate Himself into a human flesh body like the
rest of us have. Jesus thus would have to become fully man, yet
still stay fully God.

In order for Jesus to come down onto our earth in the flesh, God
the Father was going to have to arrange to have a bloodline that
He would eventually be born through at the time of His birth
into our world. Though Jesus was actually born of the Holy
Spirit, He still had to pass through a female womb. And with
Jesus having to literally pass through a female womb, this means
that God the Father will have to deal with a line of descendants
that would lead up to the virgin Mary being the one to bring
Jesus into our world. Mary was a Jew, and God thus would have to
deal with the generational bloodline that would proceed her.

It is no accident or after thought that God chose a race of
people to be His chosen people back in the Old Testament. For
whatever His personal reasons were on this issue, God
sovereignly chose the Jewish people to be His chosen people, and
through these people’s descendants, the virgin Mary would be
born, and through her physical body, God would have His Son
Jesus birthed into our physical world.

Think of what was really happening with this entire scenario. We
are talking about God Himself, Jesus Christ, the second Person
of the triune Godhead, being willing to come into our world
through a physical birthing process in order to be able to reach
us to save us from our sins.

Bottom line - if Jesus was not willing to come into our earth
through the womb of the virgin Mary, there would be no eternal
salvation for any of us, and we would all physically and
spiritually die in our sinful states, never being able to make
it to heaven or have our spiritual relationship restored back
again with God the Father.

Mary was a Jew and through her womb, we received our Lord and
Savior. Had there not been a Jewish lineage and a Jewish
heritage that she had come from, there would have been no Mary.
As a result, all Christians owe an incredible debt of gratitude
to the entire Jewish race as a result of Jesus being birthed
into our world through their bloodline.

When God purposely isolates and sovereignly chooses and elects a
special race of people to be His chosen people, and from the
descendants of this chosen people come the virgin Mary, and
through the virgin Mary our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is born
into our world - we are talking about a very special class and
race of people.

This is why the very first Gospel account goes to the trouble to
list the lineage that Jesus would be coming from. This is why
God went the extra length to state that His Son would also be
called the Son of Abraham and the Son of David in addition to
being called the Son of God.

Jesus had to be physically born into our world and in order for
Him to be able to do so, He had to be incarnated into a human
flesh body in order for our salvation to be able to occur
through His physical death on the cross.

Though the Jewish people missed who Jesus really was when He
came down to our earth, and are still in darkness to this very
day on this issue, the facts still have not changed. God made
the Jewish race His chosen people, and from their descendants
Jesus would eventually be born into our world.

As such, all Christians owe a major debt of gratitude to the
entire Jewish race for being the chosen people that God would
eventually have His Son born into this world through.

The best way to look at this is like looking at a two sided
coin. On the one side of the coin are the Jewish people and
their covenant relationship with God the Father. Though they are
not saved at this time, they are still God’s chosen people and
eventually God will save all of Israel as the above verses are
telling us. On the other side of the coin are all born again
Christians saved under the shed Blood of Jesus Christ.

Though we are now living under a new and better covenant than
what the Jews presently have with God the Father because we have
accepted who Jesus really is, this still does not negate the
Jewish people and their original Abrahamic covenant that they
still have with God the Father.

As such, we should consider all of our Jewish brethren as our
brothers and friends of the faith since we both serve and follow
the same God the Father.

Remember, the day will come when the Jewish people will accept
Jesus as their true Messiah and Savior. But until that day
comes, and these people see the real light, we should accept
them, love them and solidly support, protect and defend them
from the demonic forces that would like to try and totally
annihilate them. As I stated at the top of this article, now,
more than ever, the Jewish people and their state of Israel need
our continuing support. With another Hitler now rising out of
Iran who is trying to develop the nuclear weapons to be able to
attack and annihilate Israel, our country, along with the UN and
some of our Western allies have got to stay on top of this
building crisis. Remember what the above verse from God the
Father has told us - He will bless those who bless Israel and
curse those who will try and curse her.

I rest my case for the Jewish people and their holy land of
Israel.

Women are conditioned to be people pleasers. Women are taught to be “nice” even if that’s means comprising their happiness, and often times that is exactly what happens. We have a tendency to do, and say things just so the other person’s feelings don’t get hurt. How many times have you wanted to say something, but thought, you can’t say that, they might think you’re too harsh, or unpleasant. Times have changed, and now women are accepting their authenticity with grace and happiness. How did they do it? They changed their internal thoughts to reprogram their conditioning. Are you still playing “old tapes” that are in your head?

Take this quiz to find out if your thoughts are sabotaging your happiness.

1. You are at a dinner party, and you accidentally spill red wine on your dress and on the carpet, do you:

   1. Feel like a fool and hide out in the bathroom.

   2. Immediately get club soda to soak up the stain.

   3. Apologize profusely saying you are such a klutz.

2. You just lost a job promotion, do you:

   1. Feel frustrated! You are never going to get what you want, it seems like the whole world is against you.

   2. You feel nothing; you never expected to get it in the first place.

   3. Feel a little disappointed, but know something better will come your way soon.

3. When you buy an expensive item do you:

   1. Feel awkward and selfish.

   2. Feel like you deserve it.

   3. Guilty, because you bought it to fill a void.

4. When someone gives you a gift you hate, do you:

   1. Take it back, it’s no big deal.

   2. Keep it, just in case they came over and ask to see it.

   3. Call up a friend, and complain that you can’t believe they gave you such a horrible gift.

5. When you make a mistake, does the voice inside your head say:

   1. I could have made a better choice, oh well, I will do better the next time.

   2. I can’t believe I am so stupid, I am so mad at myself for doing that.

   3. Again, I keep making the same mistake over and over.

6. When a friend has overstepped your boundaries, do you:

   1. Get irate and really rip into them demanding that they never do that again.

   2. Simply call them on it, and explain that is not acceptable to you.

   3. Say nothing because you really don’t want to start an argument.

7. When someone gives you a compliment, do you:

   1. Graciously say thank you, and feel good about yourself.

   2. Awkwardly say thanks, and change the subject.

   3. Say no, and talk about how that statement isn’t true.

Results:

1. 1. Your thoughts are telling you that your sense of self is easily threatened, and you need to start working on your self-esteem. You run away from problems instead of dealing with them.

   2. You are a great problem solver, and your thoughts will assist you in getting what you want.

   3. Apologizing is a nice way to say that it was an accident, however profusely apologizing is an indication that you take on more responsible than necessary. Your thoughts are giving you more guilt than needed.

2. 1. You must change your thought process now! When your thoughts are negative, and you feel like you don’t have a good support system your thoughts will create that. Keep your thoughts positive!

   2. Your thoughts are keeping you safe. However staying in a safe mode, and not taking risks will leave you in a rut. Start thinking about a little risk taking.

   3. Your thoughts are right on target. It’s normal to feel a little disappointed, and it is healthy to get ready for the next opportunity.

3. 1. Thoughts that make you feel like you don’t deserve will keep you in a guilty mode. Start changing those thoughts to deserving ones.

   2. You thoughts are saying that you deserve to have nice things. Appropriately staying in your budget, and rewarding yourself now and again is healthy, and keeps you control.

   3. There is good news and bad news. The bad news is that having thoughts of guilt, and filling yourself up because you “need” something can be very damaging and destructive. The good news is that you now know this and, you can start to do something about it immediately. Change your thoughts to those that bring you a sense of self-worth, and start to see how you can fulfill your needs in the appropriate manner.

4. 1. Doing what you feel, and acting appropriate is healthy and smart. Why make a mountain out of a mole hill? Take care of the issue, and move forward.

   2. Your thoughts are keeping you in fearful state of mind. What if they should come by and ask to see their gift? The what ifs in life are very limiting. Release fearful thoughts, and do what is best for you.

   3. Your thoughts are keeping you in a victim position. Complaining and gossiping are sure ways to remain unhappy, and you can be certain you will get more of the same…negativity. Break that cycle now!

5. 1. Knowing that you have made a mistake and not “beating” yourself up over it is great! We all make mistakes, and when we learn from them and intend to do better the next time we will actually get wiser and more experienced. Your thoughts are in the right place.

   2. If you thoughts are punishing you, you will have a hard time learning, and you won’t try something new again for fear of failure. Release those kinds of thoughts and start working on self-confidence.

   3. Your thoughts are keeping you from learning from past mistakes, and you can be sentenced to a very long time of unhappiness. Observe and learn, it makes life a lot easier.

6. 1. You have thoughts of rage and anger. This is not necessarily the best way to handle problems. You need to figure out why you are so angry and resolve those feelings.

   2. Thoughts that help you problem-solve and communicate in a calm and mature way is the best bet. You can save friendships, and enforce your boundaries that will assure you happiness, and you will gain the respect of others too.

   3. Your thoughts are keeping you from facing the real issue. You don’t like confrontation, and hope the problem just goes away. Unless you start thinking about problem solving methods, the problem won’t go away, it will only get bigger.

7. 1. Accepting a compliment graciously means your thoughts are giving you a balanced sense self-esteem, humility, and ego. Way to go!

   2. Your thoughts need a little improvement. Your thoughts are saying thank you which means you believe the compliment; however changing the subject is telling you that you are uncomfortable with the attention.

   3. You are a willing victim. Your thoughts are keeping you in a martyr state of mind. This is not a recipe for happiness. Change that pattern pronto!

About The Author

Marla Sloane Ph.D. is a successful author and speaker. Her Daily Positive Affirmations subscribers have reached world-wide proportions, and her book, “The Masks We Wear and How to Live Without Them” is at the heart of her teleclasses; Live Your Best Life. Marla has also produced, Trilogy of Meditations, for your Mind, Body, and Spirit, which is distributed nationwide, and in Europe. You can visit her web site at: www.marlasloane.com.

marla@marlasloane.com